It's absolutely baffling to see the backlash against this announcement.
Imagine complaining that the UK is securing a multi-billion-pound private investment.
Let's look at the actual numbers: taxpayers are funding £1.3bn for local roads & a new rail station. In return, Universal is spending £5 billion to build the park and another £1 billion operating it.
Bedford(& the UK) gets 28,000 total jobs, a massive revitalization of a former industrial site, & a projected £50 billion economic boost.
The sheer cynicism around projects like this is exactly what holds the UK back. If we treat massive, job-creating investments as something to be outraged about, we only guarantee our own economic stagnation.
🖋 We can today announce the signing of striker Lawrence Shankland on a two-year deal with an option for an additional year.
The @ScotlandNT international will join from @JamTarts on undisclosed terms once the transfer window opens.
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Do you understand the aura and skill it takes to order in French, in Paris, and have the waiter not immediately revert to English?
This is like when Ronaldinho had the Bernabeu on its feet applauding him.
Truly the greatest to ever do it.
@cwramsay@pieandbov More than likely but there was no clamour to sign him last summer because he’d been bang average the season before when hearts finished bottom half
@afcb_fin@TalkWurzel@ObscureThing77 Grassing to the ref about someone taking the piss out of a stutter is gimpy fuck when you’re a grown man. Fuck knows how you’ve brought race into that
@afcb_fin@TalkWurzel@ObscureThing77 Not what I meant is it haha. Comparing taking the cunt out of someone for a stutter and racist abuse is genuinely wild
@afcb_fin@TalkWurzel@ObscureThing77 Yes because racial abuse isn’t taking the piss out of someone for a stammer is it? I must’ve missed the years of oppression for people that suffer from a stammer ffs